Colorado: Act Now to Nullify the Unconstitutional Federal Ban on Hemp

Senate bill 13-241, a bill to legalize Industrial Hemp within Colorado borders has passed the state Senate and is moving the house for concurrence. If passed into law, the bill would nullify the current unconstitutional federal ban on farming and production of hemp within the state. This legislation will return regulation of hemp where it belongs, to the state of Colorado.

The bill passed the Senate late last week by a vote of 34-1. It has been assigned to the House Agriculture, Livestock and Resources Committee. Your help is needed to move this bill forward and nullify the unconstitutional federal ban on hemp farming and production.

The United States is currently the world’s #1 importer of hemp, which is used in food products, clothing, oil and much more. The top exporters are China and Canada. The United States is the only developed nation that fails to cultivate industrial hemp as an economic crop, according to the Congressional Resource Service. At this time of economic difficulty, 13-241 would not only expand freedom and support the Constitution, it would also be a great jobs bill.

Action Items

1. Contact the Chairman on the House Agriculture, Livestock and Resources Committee. Thank the Chairman for sponsoring this bill and let him know you’d like to see a hearing and vote on it soon.

Randy Fischer 303-866-2917 randyfischer@frii.com

2. Contact all the other Members of the Committee. Respectfully let each of them know you want a YES vote on SB13-241. Educate them on the fact that hemp is used in a LOT of products in your local grocery store. So why shouldn’t Colorado farmers earn an income instead of importing from China or Canada?

3. Share this information widely. Please pass this along to your friends and family. Also share it with any and all grassroots groups you’re in contact with around the state. Please encourage them to email this information to their members and supporters.

ADDITIONAL READING AND RESOURCES

The federal Controlled Substance Act included hemp as a Schedule I drug in 1970. The feds consider growing it without a DEA issued permit a crime. The feds have only issued one such permit, to Hawaii, back in 1999. It has since expired. This has created a de-fact federal ban on growing the plant. And as a result, the United States is the world’s #1 importer of hemp, while China and Canada are the top 2 exporters. Some supporters say that nullifying this federal ban would be a huge win for jobs, for American farmers, and for the economy.

SB13-241 seeks to nullify the unconstitutional federal ban on the production hemp. The federal government lacks the constitutional authority to regulate the production of hemp, or any agricultural product, within a state’s borders, and SB13-241 rests on solid ground.

HEMP OVERVIEW AND USE

Industrial hemp is not marijuana, but an industrial agricultural product used for a wide variety of purposes, including the manufacture of cordage of varying tensile strength, durable clothing and nutritional products. During World War II, the United States military relied heavily on hemp products, which resulted in the famous campaign and government-produced film, “Hemp for Victory!“

Even though soil, climate and agricultural capabilities could make the United States a massive producer of industrial hemp, today no hemp is grown for public sale, use and consumption within the United States. China is the world’s greatest producer and the United States is the #1 importer of hemp and hemp products in the world.

Since the enactment of the unconstitutional federal controlled-substances act in 1970, the Drug Enforcement Agency has prevented the production of hemp within the United States. Many hemp supporters feel that the DEA has been used as an “attack dog” of sorts to prevent competition with major industries where American-grown hemp products would create serious market competition: Cotton, Paper/Lumber, Oil, and others.

now we now why they passed that stupid gun legislation I think colorado is lost to lefties am good people need to leave colorado come to Arizona or Texas let the libs destroy each other do you potheads realize that the CIA introduces drugs into an enemies culture when we are trying to defeat them I would love to have seen a street full of all you stoned morons at the scene of the boston terror attack that wouldve been one for you tube for sure

Alright… I’m going on a rant cause if morons posting… Everyone needs to wake up! Hemp is an amazing plant that has some great potential in this time… It has been banned not because it gets you high(cause it can’t) or that it looks like weed, but because it has the ability to destroy the oil industry (which is destroying our health and earth), destroy the paper ad pressed board industries( which is also destroying nature) among many other industries… Hemp and cannabis is good for heart health (when it is eaten of course) on top of other health benefits… It produces far more oxygen than the cotton crops used for making clothes( which is another industry it can destroy) and feels better and is more durable than cotton in many instances when it is processed correctly. Cannabis, when consumed, increases your appetite, decreases depression, helps attention disorders (in moderation), and is in reality non-addictive! I can keep going on and on about this but I believe I’ll stop here… People need to wake up and smell the health threats that are legally allowed to continue happening (gmo’s especially) and quit blaming a plant than can drastically change our way of life….
—Rant Over

For one thing when you grow it, it puts nutrients back in the soil, so if farmers rotated their crops out with it, we could be eating better. The seeds are very nutritious. You can make oil, for cooking, and cars, rope, paper, build homes, clothes, etc… The list goes on forever. There have been studies that show that hemp oil can cure cancer. We could save trees.

There are 50k uses for it Donna and it takes the place of nasty petro-chemical company products. The making of these products pollutes the earth heavily so the petro-chemical companies buy lobbyists and politicians to keep the status quo. Ck out the corporate monster that is DuPont as well as Hearst Corporations. That’s some serious evil there…Anyway, our only real hope is to get back to nature & start planting industrial hemp on a massive scale all thru the USA, eliminate fossil fuel dependency with bio-diesel and let hemp lead the way for this. Check out Henry Ford’s car made of hemp that ran on hemp for a start on the importance of this plant.